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Holder derides Washington Times for editorial ripping his new targeted disabilities' policy
Daily Caller ^ | 9/4/12 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 09/04/2012 7:33:14 PM PDT by Nachum

n a letter to the editor published Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder accused the Washington Times of running an “ill-informed” and “offensive” editorial in late August that criticized new hiring policies at the Department of Justice. Holder also blasted the Times for making what he called “inaccurate” and “truly shameful” characterizations of people with mental disabilities.

“Your Aug. 23 editorial about people with disabilities was ill-informed, offensive and a stark reminder that persistent prejudices and stereotypes remain too prevalent in our society and must not go unchecked,” Holder wrote in a letter to the Times’ editor.

The Times had criticized a July 31 DOJ policy memo called “Hiring of persons with targeted disabilities,” which the news outlet said allowed persons with “otherwise problematic mental deficiencies” to have “no barrier[s] to jump-starting a career at Justice.”

“The memo lists a number of ‘targeted disabilities’ that trigger special hiring privileges in compliance with President Obama’s Executive Order 13548,” the Times editorial board wrote. “Among them are people with ‘severe intellectual disability,’ ‘psychiatric disability’ or other undefined ‘current severe physical, intellectual or mental conditions.’ Most employers would balk at even minor mental disabilities in hiring a lawyer, let alone severe ones. But the policy states that the Cabinet department run by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. must ‘achieve a work force from all segments of society,’ which includes those who are teetering on the edge of sanity.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: derides; holder; nuts; times; washington

1 posted on 09/04/2012 7:33:17 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 09/04/2012 7:34:42 PM PDT by Nachum (The List was hacked- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Liberalism is a mental disorder.


3 posted on 09/04/2012 7:35:44 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

H0lder is a sufficient proof.


4 posted on 09/04/2012 7:36:31 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Nachum

*I’M* old enough to remember when the head of the DOJ prosecuted CRIME, not involved themselves in constant media preening!


5 posted on 09/04/2012 7:42:39 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Communist Party = Democrats. Socialist Party = Republicans. WE NEED A CAPITALIST FREEDOM PARTY!)
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To: Nachum
Damn! I think I have just the sort of disabilities these guys are looking for! Otherwise problematic mental deficiencies? PTSD? I promise not to blow anything up if you hire me!



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

6 posted on 09/04/2012 7:43:20 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: Nachum

So, you might not be able to purchase a fire arm, due to psychiatric problems, but you might still get a job at DOJ?


7 posted on 09/04/2012 7:43:48 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Nachum

Michael Savage said this could be a move to fill the Justice Department with radical leftists who would be almost impossible to fire and costly to sack.


8 posted on 09/04/2012 7:44:34 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Nachum

Holder should be in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.


9 posted on 09/04/2012 7:47:20 PM PDT by exnavy (The time is upon us, fish or cut bait, may God guide your heart.)
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To: Kansas58
So, you might not be able to purchase a fire arm, due to psychiatric problems, but you might still get a job at DOJ?

Cruel types with anger problems are highly sought after by totalitarians... they can be useful. Exceptions about gun ownership can be made...

10 posted on 09/04/2012 7:49:40 PM PDT by GOPJ (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T. Jefferson)
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To: Kansas58
So, you might not be able to purchase a fire arm, due to psychiatric problems, but you might still get a job at DOJ?

Cruel types with anger problems are highly sought after by totalitarians... they can be useful. Exceptions about gun ownership can be made...

11 posted on 09/04/2012 7:49:57 PM PDT by GOPJ (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T. Jefferson)
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To: tbw2
I think you nailed it, FRiend!



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

12 posted on 09/04/2012 7:51:16 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: Nachum

Just shows that you can’t out-stupid or out-corrupt a Democrat!


13 posted on 09/04/2012 7:52:01 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Skittle pooping unicorns are more common than progressives with honor & integrity.)
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To: Nachum

Eric Holder. America’s Top Criminal.


14 posted on 09/04/2012 7:56:27 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Had enough of the freaks running the show yet?)
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To: Nachum

NASA in charge of Lizzie outreach, Justice Debt. hiring crazy dwarves....

CANNOT make this up....


15 posted on 09/04/2012 7:58:59 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Nachum

Holder will soon turn into a verb for mental disabilities.


16 posted on 09/04/2012 8:07:38 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Nachum

What could possibly be worse than a federal government agency staffed with vindictive, hate-filled, black racist lawyers?

Maybe one staffed with vindictive, hate-filled, black racist lawyers who are certifiable insane?


17 posted on 09/04/2012 8:46:15 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - Ayn Rand)
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To: Nachum

Another Chicago crook - who should be doing time for his Mexico outrage.


18 posted on 09/04/2012 9:02:53 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Nachum

I don’t understand what’s so shocking about forcing airlines to hire mentally disabled pilots.

One of Barak Obama’s first acts as President was to appoint a pedophile friendly homosexual as his Safe Schools Czar.

Cass Sunstein, Regulatory Czar, thinks that animals should have legal representation to enable them to sue people. Get ready to lose your savings and your house to a Jimmy Dean sausage.

Obama’s Science Czar, John Holdren, predicted in the early 1970’s that most of the world’s population would die from mass starvation by the 1980’s. His prediction coincided with scientific consensus that disease resistant agriculture had made third world starvation a thing of the past. But let’s not let that stop him. Holdren has been an advocate eugenics and of population control, which by itself is a pretty good reason to vote against a second term for the Obama.


19 posted on 09/04/2012 9:25:41 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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